Buying lps FROM dummies

[porcy62]

About non dummies, now it's three years since I am trying to buy a huge collection (more then 15,000) of records from the heirs of the collector, an italian jazz crictic. I have a couple of partners in this business and we are ready to put a fair amount of $$$$$ on the table.

No way, until now. More a sentimental issue of the sons then money, in this case.

[Teasing the Korean]

About non dummies, now it's three years since I am trying to buy a huge collection (more then 15,000) of records from the heirs of the collector, an italian jazz crictic. I have a couple of partners in this business and we are ready to put a fair amount of $$$$$ on the table.

No way, until now. More a sentimental issue of the sons then money, in this case.

OOOOH, will there be any Umiliani or Piccioni in that haul?

[porcy62]

About non dummies, now it's three years since I am trying to buy a huge collection (more then 15,000) of records from the heirs of the collector, an italian jazz crictic. I have a couple of partners in this business and we are ready to put a fair amount of $$$$$ on the table.

No way, until now. More a sentimental issue of the sons then money, in this case.

OOOOH, will there be any Umiliani or Piccioni in that haul?

I presume so, I had only once a quick check of the things, a part the "usual" nice stuff, original Prestige, BN, ecc, basically almost every italian jazz records pressed after the WWII. Sometimes I think it should go in a serious public library, if only we would have such things for records. The problem that times is that they moved the collection from its original place so it hadn't any order anymore. Difficult to find in it a particular record.

[Teasing the Korean]

...Sometimes I think it should go in a serious public library, if only we would have such things for records. The problem that times is that they moved the collection from its original place so it hadn't any order anymore.

Those kinds of institutional collections in the US tend to stay boxed up for decades, and no one benefits.

[porcy62]

...Sometimes I think it should go in a serious public library, if only we would have such things for records. The problem that times is that they moved the collection from its original place so it hadn't any order anymore.

Those kinds of institutional collections in the US tend to stay boxed up for decades, and no one benefits.

Same here, at least since they discover that rats, parasites and humidity damaged forever the books/records.

Obviously this doesn't apply to very rare and precious books, of wich italian historical libraries are full.

Actually archivals are a serious issue over here, so are art museums. The point is that we have too much masterpieces and not enough public money for conserving and exposing. They should start a policy of fiscal advantage for private foundations.

[K1969]

Here is the story about Joe Bussard finding the Black Patti 78s. The story is toward the top of the article, but the whole thing is fascinating.

Thanks! here's the bit I loved reading - I've been there myself on record hauls, but never for anything as special:

Bussard could barely contain himself. "'O my God,'" he recalls whispering to himself. "I was pissing and shitting little apples......he knew it was time to make a deal fast, before the geezer had a sudden conversion to the blues, or before some unseen harpy started shrieking from somewhere in the bowels of the house, as had happened so many times before: "Daddy, don't you dare get rid of them‹those are Mama's records!"....he would do anything short of violence to get those records safely into the trunk of the car parked outside. Mustering all the nonchalance he could, Bussard slipped the 78s into their sleeves‹copies so new they slid in as if they were greased‹and put them into the box. "What do I owe you?" he asked. "Oh, give me 10 dollars," the old man replied, delighted to unload the junk for some cash.

[Teasing the Korean]

This was the part I liked, after he found the first 78:

The peacock seemed to be strutting, as if it were alive. The room felt oppressive. The dust hung in the air like some hallucinatory fog.

[K1969]

This was the part I liked, after he found the first 78:

The peacock seemed to be strutting, as if it were alive. The room felt oppressive. The dust hung in the air like some hallucinatory fog.

Yup, in my trawls I've seen the sun rise and set on the Strata East label and the arrows on Prestige's logo point at me as if to say "I'm yours", but I've never seen peacocks strut. Who needs acid when you're staring vinyl manna in the face. I've been here before:

On the drive, .....The old man looked out the window at the hills rolling by: "Oh, I got a gang of them back at the house, a couple hundred or so." The man's casual aside, spoken as if he were mentioning the weather, gripped Bussard to the very core of his being. The affable coot didn't know it, but he'd spoken the magic words that ruled the life of any hard-core 78 fiend.